How can I copy a table, or selection of rows or columns in a table, from Arcmap without going through the pointy-clicky-typey exercise of Export table? The destination of said copy could be anything: notepad, excel, word, whatever.

The existing context menu only allows copying the value for a single cell and using the keyboard [Ctrl-C] also just copies a single cell value:

I'm using Arcmap 10.1, but this has been annoying for years, so don't feel the need to restrict your answer to a particular version.

beautiful! Now, how long has that been there and I didn't know?? (too bad it doesn't work for columns too).
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matt wilkieApr 23 '13 at 19:12

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I know what you mean about copying columns! It takes a few more clicks but once you hide all fields you don't want (usually through Layer Properties > Fields tab), select all rows, and then use the Copy Selected command (typically much faster to just delete the columns you don't want in an Excel spreadsheet or Word table format).
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ccnApr 23 '13 at 19:17

This is one of those annoyingly simple but obscure software things. If you just right click on the grey boxes over on the left of the attribute table and select "copy selected" there, you will get the whole tuple, not just the field your mouse happens to be over. You'll be able to paste the table as tab separated plain text into whatever application you please.

I accepted @ccn's answer because he was first up and gave the keyboard shortcut. Your contribution with screenshot definitely fleshes out the answer more fully, thanks :)
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matt wilkieApr 24 '13 at 18:44

after seeing Brad Nessom's similar answer here, I decided the screenshot could benefit from some more context; so updated.
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matt wilkieMay 7 '14 at 18:50

Select all the rows and columns ( if your highlight shows light blue)
Then at the bottom of the Attribute table that has two buttons and one of them says
Show selected records.
Re-hightlighted again and it should turn yellow hightlight
right clicked on your mouse and it should show you Copy selected.

1: I still have to do this to copy the acres and Tfactor to the Data Layout.

Thanks for contributing HeyOverThere. Export is built in to Arcmap, though perhaps not with the same proficiency as XTools. However this is off-topic, I specifically asked for a method that doesn't involve exporting.
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matt wilkieApr 23 '13 at 20:47